{"id":4168,"date":"2025-10-23T19:32:29","date_gmt":"2025-10-24T02:32:29","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/dornsife.usc.edu\/fren-ital\/?p=4168"},"modified":"2025-11-04T20:27:41","modified_gmt":"2025-11-05T04:27:41","slug":"faculty-recognition","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/dornsife.usc.edu\/fren-ital\/2025\/10\/23\/faculty-recognition\/","title":{"rendered":"Professor Szabari receives honorable mention"},"content":{"rendered":"\n  \n    \n\n\n\n\n\n\n<div\n  class=\"cc--component-container cc--signup-form \"\n\n  \n  \n  \n  \n  \n  \n  >\n  <div class=\"c--component c--signup-form\"\n    \n      >\n\n    \n<div class=\"text-image-container\">\n  <div class=\"text-container\">\n\n              \n<div class=\"f--field f--section-title\">\n\n    \n  <h2>\n          Professor Szabari&#8217;s Award\n      <\/h2>\n\n\n<\/div>\n    \n              \n<div class=\"f--field f--description\">\n\n    \n  <p>Congratulations to Professor Antonia Szabari, whose recent book, <a href=\"https:\/\/fordhampress.com\/agents-without-empire-hb-9781531506667.html\"><i>Agents without Empire. Mobility and Race-Making in Sixteenth-Century France <\/i><\/a>(Fordham, 2024)\u00a0has received honorable mention for<span class=\"apple-converted-space\">\u00a0<\/span>the Aldo and Jeanne Scaglione Prize for French and Francophone Studies from the Modern Languages Association.<\/p>\n<p><i>Agents without Empire<\/i>\u00a0explores race making in this period of European history in the context of diplomatic reposts, travel accounts, natural history, propaganda, religious literature, poetry, theater, fiction, and cheap print. It intervenes in conversations in whiteness studies, race theory, theories of agency and matter, and the history of diplomacy and spying to offer a new account of race making in early modern Europe.<\/p>\n<p>Szabari argues that before the rise of the French colonial empire, medieval categories of race based on the redemption story were recast through accounts of the Ottoman Empire that were made accessible, in a sudden and unprecedented manner, to agents of the French crown. Spying performed by Frenchmen in the Ottoman Empire in the sixteenth century permeated French culture in large part because those who spied also worked as knowledge producers, propagandists, and artists. 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